Pulling Down Strongholds — Leonard Ravenhill

We thank you, we bless you for this privilege of entering into the court above all other courts to the God above all other gods. To bow before his majesty Jesus Christ our Lord. We do so with reverence and godly fear.

We will be still and know that thou art God tonight. As the old poet said may sense be done let flesh retire. Speak through the earthquake the wind or the fire or the still small voice of calm. Drop thy still dues of quietness till all our striving cease.

Take from our souls the strain and stress and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace. We come from this world with all its entanglements that with all its ferocity and vulgarity and savagery even in our day.

Turning Our Eyes Upon Jesus

And thank you for this privilege to turn our eyes Upon Jesus and look full in his wonderful face. Lord may we do that tonight? Show us some hidden beauty. You've said you'll bring out of your treasury things new and old.

You know every one of our hearts, maybe there are some very Wounded hearts tonight may they find healing in this service. Maybe there are some of us who sensibilities to deep spiritual things are still.

Very very small very very light. Will you deepen that sensibility tonight? Maybe there's some who can't find their way. We pray that they'll find that way tonight. Make this a crossroad in somebody's life nay Lord.

We will pray in everybody's life tonight. We thank you for your word. We bless you for it. We think our men have burned it and banned it and blamed it and buried it I. It stands at the graveside of all its persecutors.

They perish, but your word abides forever. And not only has it does and not only does it will. Because you said that even if they blew the world up in smithereens heaven and earth may pass away, but my word shall never pass.

We thank you don't have to make any corrections to it. Men try to do that in their foolishness. But your word to us is thus saith the Lord. We would ask that we may embrace it tonight and believe it and be quickened is one.

And the things of us will grow strange Lydian of his glory. I'll turn my eyes upon Jesus. I'll turn.

My eyes upon Jesus. Look.

In his Wonderful. And the things of us will grow strangely. Dim in the light of his glory. Okay, let's look at the book the book in the second letter of Paul to the Corinthians chapter 10. And let me give you my usual quip.

I'm right reading from the Living Bible King James to Chronicles 10. I'm sorry to Corinthians. Thank you to Corinthians 10. Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ. Who in presence and base among you, but being absent and bold toward you?

Paul’s Weakness and the Greatness of Christ

Jump down to verse 10 for a moment for his letters. They say that's his critics. His letters are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible. Now if you think Paul was an orator you got it all wrong.

He wasn't. And the kind of an idea that maybe he stammered out many of his words. He wouldn't have what Dr. Tozzi used to say to me sometimes it seems today a preacher needs a toothpaste. Smile, you know.

Like this you stand up oozing out personality. They don't wear anything less than a $500 suit and you'll be sure to show you the gold bracelet, you know. We used to put those on the dogs at home. But anyhow.

They have an identification mark and a gold watch and all the trimmings. Now the last the last thing Paul wanted to do ever was to project Paul. I Think if you said Paul was a great preacher, he'd be insulted.

He'd be disappointed. The job of no preacher is to show you he's a great preacher is to show you that he has a great Christ. That should be the fundamental desire of his life always but not as he says his bodily presence is weak.

Well, could it be anything else? If you were tied to a whipping post and lashed 195 times, do you think you'd be? Well, just maybe as strong as you are. I Want to say thrice I was stoned. I'm persuaded he limps.

I'm persuaded his eyes weren't quite straight. I'm quite sure his face was marked where he'd been slit with stones. And he didn't have any real medication. I Think it will be a very very disappointing.

What we call today personality. You know in the old days, that's a long time back Dale and I remember them. In the old days they used to talk about character. Now we talk about personality. You know some of those bubbly little women on soap operas and These foolish folk in dynasty or some of these other junky things.

They short night. Yeah, I Wouldn't let them wash my dog. Incidentally, I don't have a dog, but I wouldn't let them wash the dishes anyhow. He says that his bodily presence is even testifies himself noticed back in the first verse and in presence.

I'm base among you. If he came in the room, you wouldn't say boy. Look at that famous be six feet four boy. He must be a tremendous athlete. He looks the very essence of fitness. No, no, no, no. Isn't it this very man who says that we have this treasure in earthen vessels and good night.

We make so much of the earthen vessel. Take some women longer to get the face straight. I don't wonder it of course going to church Sunday morning when time they pray. You think God was concerned about fashion instead of passion.

We make so much of the body. This is the day when everything's a body. You've got to feel fit. You've got to paint it up trim it up feed it up. Well in case you don't know the worms are going to eat you anyhow it before long.

So cheer up. What a lot we make of the body and if they don't make it of the body. We make it of the mind intellectualism, you know, all these philosophies and of course that marvelous word psychology.

Do you know the definition of psychology? Psychology is something everybody understands in a language. Nobody understands. There's no woman no person has more psychology than the mother. If she sees a child got something a treasure.

She didn't run grab it. She knows the child would hold on to it. So she picks a ball up and the child puts the thing down and takes the other thing that psychology no charge for this but. It's true. Oh.

Eternity Consciousness Instead of Personality and Possessions

How out of focus we are in these days in which we live. As I said today even amongst God's people we're not eternity conscious people. We're position conscious possession conscious power conscious personality conscious.

Eternity conscious. Come on. How much have you thought about eternity today? And yet we're going there. There's no option about it. Okay, but he's prepared to say his bodily present nothing attract him about him he's not coming with superior language.

He wasn't the auditor of the early church. Who was the auditor of the early church not Paul who? Paulus. He was the Democenies. He was a man that was oh boy. He could stir your flesh and paint wonderful pictures.

Ah. But the man that had the revelation and the authority was surely the Apostle Paul and he doesn't hesitate. With his colossal intellect with more revelation than any other man that ever lived 14 epistles if you give him Hebrews.

And I think he wrote it and he says pray for me as he finishes Ephesians 6. It kind of staggers me pray for me that utterance may be given to me. Now if he was eloquent, he wouldn't need utterance, but that word doesn't mean eloquence there.

It means pray for me that authority may be that when I speak the word of God, there's authority. There's weight behind it. Well, isn't that exactly what people said about Jesus the scribes and others said?

Well, you listen to those guys and they don't mean it anyhow, but when you hear this man. This man is so different from the scribes and Pharisees. What did they say about him his words are what. Well, they said of Paul his words are weighty.

They said of Jesus even his enemies said never man spake like this man. Yeah, I get angry with preachers. I'm gonna preach to a lot of them in next month. They're in for a bad time. Let me tell you. Hmm, I do not understand how you can have a dead service with a living Christ.

Do you know the answer if you do tell me? Why do so many of the young people say? Oh, I don't know. We've got a church. It's boring. Stand up sit down. The choir will sing now. We're gonna put a new wing on the church, you know.

Some of those judges so many winged you the wonder it doesn't fly away. Again, it's all external materialistic. It's not getting down to the heart of the matter. Okay, let's read a bit further verse two.

But I beseech you that I may not be bold when I am present with you. With that confidence wherewith I think to be bold against some which think there of us as if we think of us as if we were walking according to the flesh now remember this is only part of a Scenario it's like taking one piece out the middle of a crossroad of a what he called those puzzles Jigsaw puzzle in the next chapter is going to warn us against people that that come as sheep.

And actually they're wolves. They're false apostles and. So he's justifying to some degree the fact that God has ordained him. This is his final appeal to this church and it's his second epistle as you know, obviously and he's almost at the end of it.

He says in verse three though we walk in flesh we do not walk after the flesh. Does that remind you that we're in the world yet not of the world? We're in the flesh. People say I went to a meeting the other night trying to get us all to die die to self.

You can't die to self. You are a self you are an entity. You can die to sinful self. You can die to what I call hyphenated sin. Self-seeking self-interest self-glory self-projection. But but you're a self you're a personality that only be you.

I Mean the Lord's grace is there's only one of you in the whole world in that relief. Hmm, I mean if it were all like you I would be but anyhow the fact is that you you you. Now now Paul says we walk in the flesh in this flesh.

That's what his meaning is not meaning the inner flesh the fleshy things. We do not want after the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. That mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.

Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself now. I think the best way to read this chapter actually is to read this part and then go right over to Ephesians. To the latter part of Ephesians the sixth chapter where it talks about putting on the whole armor of God.

And not as it's putting on the armors there. It wouldn't do you any good if you have a suit of armor. I used to go to a place in fact I stayed in a castle for a month and as you went in there were two not men.

But there were two suits of shining armor with men holding spears. They're very attractive. But that armor wouldn't be any good if you were out fighting in the field and somebody shot an arrow at you.

You've got to put it on not that God put it on you put it on he makes the provision. There are things we want God to do when God says do it yourself stir up yourself stir up the gift of God. That's in you don't blame God for your sloth.

As I've said so often this Bible whether Wesley had it or Finney or Booth or somebody else. Nobody ever had a bigger Bible than you have the only thing is that they used it better. They redeemed the time better.

Spiritual Warfare Against the World, the Flesh, and the Devil

Now notice he says the weapons of our warfare, and that's the thing that I latched on to for tonight warfare a Christian life is no picnic. We're in the world, but we're not of the world. It's a warfare.

There are three main adversaries in this warfare the world the flesh the devil. Now you could make a circle kind of. You know like this say this is the world. And then you could put pockets in like this you know and you could put all kinds of things in it.

Hey here are the cults and here is the devil and here are evil spirits. And you can fill a hundred things up that are all in this present as the Word of God calls it evil world. There's an old hymn that says is this vile world a friend to grace.

The only desire this world has the only desire Satan has is to reduce you to zero. Make you think you're inferior make you think you don't count very much in the kingdom of God. Make you say well my daddy wasn't much and my grandfather certainly wasn't and his father wasn't and you go back and all that senseless thing.

Instead of entering into the fact that we are. Yeah. We are in Jesus Christ. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. Now that I said to you I say again. This Sunday ninety percent of the preaching in America or England will be about a man who lived 2 ,000 years ago called Jesus Christ.

And we'll think we're doing him a favor by defending his Miraculous birth and resurrection and it will be all about ninety percent is about the man who died 2 ,000 years ago after the next 10 9 will be about a man who's coming soon the king coming in all his glory in all His majesty only 1

This is my judgment. It's not a poll that gallop made of somebody. It's my opinion on my conviction. 90 is about the Christ who died years ago. 9 is about him coming in glory. 1 is really drawing on his resources.

For this hour in which we live the world out there isn't criticizing the church of 2 ,000 years ago. It's criticizing the church today. It doesn't care how Wesley preached. It doesn't care how Finney preached.

It says so what so what what is the church doing today? And they'll come up and say it's not very relevant. You know, I mean in a day like this. Well, this has been a wonderful day in case you don't know.

Was it last night two men got out of a tin can up in the sky and they walked for four hours today in the air. Isn't that wonderful? But it so happens that tonight on the news. It said that that kill oi Volcano in Hawaii Was coming down the road at an awesome pace.

It is 20 feet high of molten lava. The river is more than two miles long. It's only two miles to go to the sea and it's all downhill. And we don't know how to stop it. Well, why don't all the ice cream dealers in America send ice cream over and put it in the path of it?

Don't you think that would stop it? I Mean 20 feet of molten lava 600 600 feet wide and you stack ice cream a mile high and a mile thick. Surely it would sizzle the thing out. No, it wouldn't. Of course it wouldn't.

The Church’s Failure to Confront Present Darkness

Well, I want to tell you I believe that's a correct analogy of what the church is trying to do again. Against the tide of sin that's in the world today. We're putting an ice cream barrier up there. We're thinking we're going to stop it by broadcasting a few messages.

Getting out some tracts which are all good. But we've had them for years and we've not stopped this awesome barrage of sin. And I don't care what church you go to no church is going to have revival on the one sweet prayer meeting neither in Garden Valley or green acres or black acres or anywhere else it's rather like having a.

Guess you like my drawings. Yeah, wait a minute. I got a wall here. Here's a torrent. Here's water rushing out from here. A little boy saw it according to the legend you know in Holland and he went and stuck his finger in that hole and there he Stayed all night, and he died and he held up the dike.

Now everybody knows that story except people in Holland. They don't know a thing about it. So it's all it's all. It's all imagination. Now wouldn't it be something if he stuck his finger in all night?

And then he went and said I'll come back next Friday and stick my finger in it and the Friday afternoon stick my finger in It and the Friday afternoon stick my feet. It wouldn't do much. Right. Well you think of a great barrier that there is that there like going to Boulder Dam and seeing all the water held up.

You know the church is trying to do the same thing. We're trying to stick our finger in the hole just for about an hour on Friday nights. And let the world go to hell fire the rest of the week, and it hasn't worked, and it doesn't work.

And it won't work. Paul says that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty. Through God to the pulling down of strongholds now come on. Do you think there were any ever any more hide hide holes or holes to hide in for the devil and today?

Do you do you think you ever had more? What shall I call them agencies. A lady wrote me a blistering letter? I'd written something for last days, and she sent me a letter. She didn't like it. But to tell the truth, I didn't like it, but I wrote it.

I Write a lot of things. I don't write, but I wrote it. And I'd mentioned the fact that we change the names of things we don't call iniquity. Iniquity. We call it infirmity. We don't call wickedness wickedness.

We call it weakness. We don't say people are living in adultery. They're having an affair that's innocent enough isn't it. You don't say there's a there's a whore you call her a call girl. There's nothing offensive about that.

And I said the fact we don't use the word bastard. And she said would you go to somebody illegitimate and say you're a bastard. No I have more sense than that. But it happens to be a Bible word and one thing that gets to me more than that is this we talked about the cults.

Mercy. You couldn't find a word more inoffensive than that. What if you call them doctrines of devils like the Apostle does. Always some people next door to us and lovely people. Jehovah's Witnesses. They're not Jehovah's Witnesses the hell's witnesses.

Why don't you wake up? They haven't got a degree of truth. Cults cults strongholds. I Pick this up today. Is it possible that Great Britain has more Muslims than she has Christians in church on Sunday morning.

Statistics tell us it is so. Is it true that the Islamic countries are training 6 ,000 Muslim missionaries. 6 ,000? Who in turn will train workers to carry the message of Islam to the ends of the earth?

The Muslim money that we've poured back to those oil chiefs those what would he call the moguls or sheikhs? That money has built 22 universities of the Islam faith and The ayatollah how many promises to export militant Islam to liberate people or in darkness?

Dear God that's more than most of your preachers will say this weekend. Some of those preachers reach every Sunday was Mother's Sunday. And they never have to say anything offensive. Jesus was abrasive.

Paul was abrasive. He talks about us entering into a place Where we pull down strongholds come on come on? When did you ever feel any engagement with the powers of darkness? Did you ever feel you entered into a situation and you knew when you got up you pull a stronghold down?

Prayer as the Church’s Primary Weapon

The Dale and I pray together every Tuesday and Thursday, and I value that time. It's what fancy name these days quality time we've prayed for so many different things and God has answered prayer, and we've prayed for them here and Just before lunch today a man called me.

He said Good afternoon. Well it was morning, so I said well. He said well. It's morning with you afternoon with me. Oh, where are you in the world? I up with the astronauts. No. I am in South Africa. Wellington, South Africa.

I've got halfway through a book called why revival tariff, and I can't finish it. I've got to tell you that God is just breaking my heart over it. It's got a message that's needed for the day. When have you been to South Africa?

No, I haven't been around the world. I haven't been to South Africa. Oh He said listen this book is getting hold of people, and I don't take any credit for it. God gave it to me. My dear friend Alfredo here from I'm gonna say Puerto Rico Venezuela.

God used it in his life partly to. But the thing that gives me joy is that there are saints all over the earth right now are totally dissatisfied with materialism. They're tired of the status quo in the church.

They're tired of their kids going to church and falling asleep, and they don't know the text of the preacher anything when they come out. That's an abomination. People go to a film they know who the characters in the film are you ask them what film did you see last week?

Oh, I saw so-and-so boy the leading lady. She is gorgeous. Maybe she's a big sack of flesh. That's all but anyhow there. She's a gorgeous. The other fellows marvelous because he's a brute he shot somebody's death three or four of them.

Which is par for the course these days? They remember everything about a film. They can't remember the first thing about the sermon they heard last Sunday come on. What what did your preacher preach on last Sunday morning?

Give me the text give me the. What was it driving up? We need a revolution in the church. No we need a revolution in the pulpit first of all. The church needs to pray. The pulpit needs to pray. But when I got we're in a warfare.

The Hundred Years’ War and the Church’s Mission

You know this warfare is it in Europe it may be remember in history. There was once a hundred years war. That's pretty long war. This war in our version of it in our section of it began 2 ,000 years ago and the difference between this war and other wars is that we can't make a peace treaty with our adversary.

Now I've never thought how war world war one ended with an armistice another armistice is. It's a suspension of activity. That's all it is. And it resurfaced in 20 years. It came up in 1939 20 years in which the church had the greatest opportunity since Pentecost and she muffed it.

Bernard Shaw HD Wells all the snobbish intellectuals were saying we don't need the gospel. We don't need the Bible. We don't need the church. They said that in 1912 two years before World War one. They were rather startled when the world war Fabian socialism had all the super intellectuals.

Aldous Huxley. All the monkey boys, you know believe they came from monkeys and they act like it of course. And all those intellectuals were there. Two years before World War one England was almost still sleepy Elizabethan English England and.

These supermen said we don't need the church. What has it done in 2 ,000 years? We don't need the gospel. We don't need this the Bible. Well, they got wakened up. Just like all these people are gonna have great fun and banquets tonight.

And this horrible river of fire has come down now and would you believe it? It even oh it has no manners. It went into the Royal Gardens this afternoon and burned half of them up and Millionaires homes going like that.

Well, of course, but what is Hawaii being it's been a fun place. It's almost a Las Vegas. New Orleans is what four feet underwater. Well, New Orleans is under under the sea level. I don't know. Do you know that at all?

They pump every day to keep it from but now it's got eight feet of water in some places. Well Bourbon Street won't be dancing tonight and to the tune when the Saints go marching in. God does get his revenge now and again and shut these places down.

And if the world had enough sense and the preacher had enough we'll tell them this is a foretaste of coming judgment. That river may be roaring with all its power right now through New Orleans through Baton Rouge.

It's only a cup of water compared to the judgment that's coming. That river of fire 20 feet high 600 feet broad. I forget how many thousands of degrees people are backing off as they're reported on it and they don't realize that God our God is a consuming fire and.

The reason the world goes to hellfire tonight is because the church has lost Holy Ghost fire. If your church has chicken suppers find a better church if your church has an amusement park. I Passed the church today family Life Center in God's name.

Why there's a fellow going around the country Dobson telling Christians how to run the homes and then the church builds a center. So you won't stay at home in that logical. But you go there and your children can play games in one room and you can sit here with the Joneses or the Smiths of the Browns and somebody else and talk about our Browns don't go but other Browns do but.

Is this what it's all about? Isn't the house divided enough without the church helping to divide it isn't enough worldliness and sensuality without feeding it. And getting little minds away from eternity, I think it was Isaac Watts.

I'm not quite sure. I think it was Isaac Watts that started studying Greek when he was six and Hebrew when he was eight and he spoke about five languages by the time he was 11 and that Wasn't unusual in that day.

It's unusual today in some of the best schools in England. Our boys went to school and and and when they were 11, they are they have compulsorily to take a second language. You know our children that were number 12 our children in America with all the food.

We have there about number 12 on the health list of the world. With so much junk food and we got an agent for coke up there. So I mustn't say too much when anyhow a cokes and all the rest of it. Richest nation in the world eating the worst food.

Richest nation in the world children very uneducated most god-blessed nation in the world with radios TVs. And we're number one in crime and we're number one in divorce and heaven knows what else. You see when you when you read this it talks about pulling down strongholds and I began to ask myself.

Well, well, how many strongholds are they what are they all about? Well, you can face a lot. We're facing a stronghold in society today. The lifestyle of America or England is anti-christian. Let's face it.

Don't get so blind with the stars and stripes that you can't see the cross or the With the Union Jack that you can't see the cross. Our first loyalty is not to a country. Our first loyalty is to the cross.

Not too many amens, but it's true. I was reading Spurgeon yesterday says you can't think of a Christian taking up a sword or a gun. I never tried to persuade my boys what to do, but I did say look when you come to a situation.

Visualize Jesus with a machine gun in his hand sweeping down a whole crowd of people who are gonna immediately they shot down. They're going to hell. Doesn't matter whether the communists whether they're black or white or what in the world we are.

Once we get an eternity consciousness once we see any man, whoever he is. Not in his social standing or intellectual standing. Or any other standing we see him as a person lost. He's going to a lost eternity without God.

Why if that were true. Every prayer meeting in the nation every house of God and my judgment in this crisis. I wouldn't we we should have a prayer room that's open 24 hours a day in every church in the land.

Maybe our choice is as simple as this. Concentrate in prayer or Praying concentration camps come on make your choice. What do you do you take the fence from the top of the cliff as they've done in schools taking the Ten Commandments?

But we put a streamlined ambulance at the bottom. Isn't it better to have the barrier at the top? Than the swanky ambulance at the bottom. We're denying children their birthright. We're up against well Adversaries like society the style of living which is so accepted today, and it's a it's a corrupt style of living.

I was reading I get the New York Times book review. I read it. I get it free, but there's some tremendous things. There was one in today in which a man said how do you escape from the Senseless cruelty of this generation in which we live we're the most cruel generation that's ever lived.

Being around here two years ago. Oh. And you pull an arrow out of your back. Dirty Indians should throw them all away those Indians. We don't do that now. We're civilized. All we do we just take a bomb and drop it on the city and barbecue a whole city.

That's education, but when you've dropped it remember you put a hundred thousand or a million people into hell. What do we do well? Well God has said I didn't say. God has said that when the enemy comes in like a flood he lift up a standard against Him but listen you wouldn't send Boy Scouts out to fight a Herd of Indians.

A crowd of Indians if they were coming you get some chosen men to do it. And I think if you're honest you'll admit that the weakest portion of your life is your prayer life. And the weakest portion of your churches is a prayer prayer meeting.

Preachers don't like me to say so I rub it in. The crowd on Sunday morning shows you how popular the church is. The crowd on Sunday night shows you how popular the preacher is. The crowd at the prayer meeting shows you how popular God is.

Who people come and crowd to it a lady wrote to me today? We'd over. Maybe nearly 4 ,000 people Sunday morning couldn't get them in the sanctuary had to put them all over so what it's Easter. What's a good of buying new clothes if you can't show them off?

It's like humility. What's a good of having it if you can't tell a folk about it. Oh Oh, I was talking with a brother today. That's all sense of God's holiness. How often do you think you're a soldier?

I know you say you're gonna have your name in the book of life. When you got there Gabriel the standard salute and Peter and all the Apostles be waiting just for you all the way from Garden Valley. What was it an old saint used to say God don't let me come to heaven without any notches in my blade.

You know that one used to fight with swords and every time you fought somebody Defended and said chipped a bit out of the blade another saint says don't let me come to heaven without scars. We've got what I think is almost a nursery rhyme Christianity.

Jesus shed the last drop of his blood. I'll be careful. I don't shed the first drop of mine. He died for me. Well, I want to live for him. I sure don't want to die for him now look this engagement is gonna get easier.

So you may as well face up to it. I talked with a couple not long ago. They said look we're very happily married. We've both got good situations, and we would if we felt it was of God we we'd be very glad to have a child.

We can afford children. We've got money to educate them so forth so on but we're not having children not to bring them into a world which is increasingly Deteriorating morally and in every other way and Satan is getting a stronger grip on every system on earth.

I Disagree with their philosophy if you like, but there's some sense in it, too. If you're bringing children into the world you better do like Job he says I'll pray this morning. Before my children go out in the world lest they should fall into sin.

And even when they're old enough to pray you should do. My daddy did it prayed with my dad prayed in it. You know till I was working in a factory every morning before I went to work. You want the church to do it.

Why do you let your kids run around like little animals all week and expect Sunday school to straighten them out in 40 minutes? You should be the king in your home, and you should be the priest in your home.

And I would love if your children should say the greatest thing about my daddy was not that he bought me the best dresses or the best suits or a motorcycle or something. But I can remember like a famous Scott said Mother used to say daddy's praying.

And he says we always tiptoed quietly past that room we could hear daddy with his intercessions you Know that's about the greatest thing on earth. I'd rather be born in a home with the with with a godly daddy.

And I thank God I had a godly praying daddy. And I'd rather have that than my dad be ten times more famous than Babe Ruth or Babe Ruth or any invents anybody on earth. Because you see everything else has debt in it.

Why invest your life in death? Now this is a real warfare. Our adversary has no manners. He's going to try every conceivable thing to trap you. He's got all those traps laid out in the world and on top of that of course.

You've got some hidden force if God hasn't dealt with them. You've got some enemies inside that can strangle or or shall I say? Hinder your spiritual life as much as anything external. For instance you could have a monster that lots of guys can't deal with.

They can go and sweat and lift up so many Weights bars and all the rest they can't get out of bed in the morning to pray. Well, I don't think he's a strong man. I think he's a weakling. My bed is never more comfortable than the last five minutes just before I get out of it every morning.

I Say Martha this bed is love. It wasn't like this when we got in last night, but oh I Feel like a bird in a nest you know the soft feathers all round and I could just stay here. I mean I Mean I'm not young.